In Jewish tradition, we come together at the culmination of a unit of study to celebrate the learning, recognize the accomplishment, and...

I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders walking through the doors to school this morning. Like many of you, I have been glued to local...

Just a few minutes ago, the entire school gathered for Shabbat B'Yachad, our last pre-Shabbat full community assembly of the year. This...

Thank you to all who joined the Beit Rabban Gala last night to celebrate our beautiful community and raise critical scholarship funds for...

Next week, all our middle school students head off on their annual Tiyul Week, and I am so excited to join the eighth-grade trip to...

Processing my thoughts out loud, and especially in conversation with others, is how I walk through the world. The more overwhelmed or...

We returned from Pesach break yesterday and jumped right back into the annual "Jewish Memory Season." This is a term I learned from my...

Today was Someone Special Day at Beit Rabban! This is a very unusual day because, generally, there is no one special in this building. Just Joking. In all seriousness, it was amazing. The magic of intergenerational, communal learning is simply magical. Today, our classes were filled with students and their grandparents, other family members, and friends who are chosen family members ranging in age from 18 to approximately 90 years old. We were bursting with special people, wi

We close out Sefer Shemot this week with Parashat Pekudei, the second of two Parshiot that details the entire process of building the...

Last May while staffing the Eighth Grade Washington DC trip, I realized that something in my life had to change. I was struggling to keep...

There have been many days of sad and stressful news at home and in our homeland. I suspect many of you reading this email are not doing...

This Shabbat is a very special one for my family. Twenty years ago, on Parashat Beshalach, my husband and I launched a lay-led...

Do you know what it is like to have a song stuck in your head? You might not even realize it is happening until you find yourself singing...

This morning was our annual second-grade Torah Reading Ceremony, a critical rite of passage in the lifetime of a Beit Rabban education....

We had an amazing last week of school before winter break! As we do each year, we held our Whole School Project this week, dividing into...

You can learn a lot about people from what they hang on their walls, intentionally and unintentionally. I love visiting a friend's home...

In honor of Jewish Book Month, I write this message as an ode to the literary tradition of our people (of the book). Jewish Book Month...

The way we celebrate Thanksgiving at school is one of our most public expressions of communal values, and it never gets old. We prepared...

Anyone with a child (let alone more than one) understands that you have to be ready at any moment to pivot- from conversation to...

This has been a year of unprecedented instability for so many of us and our loved ones. As an American patriot and Zionist with close...